Re: Spell Checking

[kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> kgold wrote:
>  > When I spell check comments and strings and the string is part of
>  > a printf
>  >
>  > 	printf("\tHello, world\n");
>  >
>  > I'd like the spell checker to ignore the letter after the \.
>  > Currently, it complains that tHello is misspelled, causing many false
>  > errors.
> 
> Can you trick it by adding backslash-character to
> ispell-skip-region-alist?
> 
> (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
>            (lambda ()
>              (set (make-local-variable 'ispell-skip-region-alist)
>                   (cons '("\\\\[abfnrtv\\'\"]") ispell-skip-region-alist))))

Works perfectly.  Thanks once again.

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Ken Goldman   kgold@watson.ibm.com   914-784-7646